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negro

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈniɡɹoʊ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted egnorStarts with NEnds with O0 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Having skin rich in melanin pigments

Word origin

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir. Compare nigrescence.

Used in a sentence

  • The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]
  • What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.
  • There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land.

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